Crime and Punishment "Is there not such a thing as crime?" Disdusses Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoevsky, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, and Utopia, by Sir Thomas More

Part 2, Question 1 - Is there or is there not such a thing as crime?
For this question, I have chosen to discuss the following three works of literature:
Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoevsky, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, and Utopia,
by Sir Thomas More.
To begin with an omniscient and philosophical frame of reference, crime is only
defined as crime by the society defining it. When a mass of human beings coagulate to¬
gether and form a civilized society, they are bound to make rules and laws to follow and
bide by; for laws are one of the cornerstones of a civilized society. If th…